View the Olympic Birthday Ecard
This Thinking of You greeting card comes from a public domain cartoon by Warner Brothers and Merry Melodies / Looney Toones. the cartoon starts with a blue background with white letters that say, "It's your Olympic Birthday". There is a cartoon of a little pink birthday cake underneath with three lit candles. Then we see a cartoon of the beginning of a hurdles race. The gun fires and three runners take off running. They come to two sets of hurdles; at each one, the climb the hurdle like a ladder and climb down the other side. This scene fades and another begins. Women in one piece bathing suits and bathing caps dive int a pool and begin a swim race. They finish at the opposite side, swimming right to left. The scene shifts to the winner holding a trophy with people around her applauding.. as she walks away the camera pulls back and we see that she is a mermaid and is walking on the tips of her fish tail. Next we see a male diver executing a perfect jackknife dive into a pool. After him a female diver in a yellow one piece bathing suit does a perfect Swan Dive. The narrator refers to a third popular dive and the scene cuts to a seedy bar front. The final image is a dark blue background on which there appears words in white font, "To my favorite champion, Happy Birthday" Below these words are cartoon icons of presents and balloons on the left, two fun party hats in the center, and on the left a chocolate birthday cake with lit candles and stars coming from behind the cake.